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ILAB Library - All You Need To Know About Rare Books and the Antiquarian Book Trade
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[+] More Fälschungen und Täuschungen
Published since 01 Mar 2010"Und die Moral von der Geschicht, In Zweifelsfällen kaufe nicht!" - Karl Geigy-Hagenbach about fakes and forgers in autograph collecting. His own legendary autograph collection is documented in “Autographensammlung von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach in Basel” (addenda 1933 and 1939). For J. A. Stargardt’s “Der Autographen-Sammler” Geigy-Hagenbach wrote a series of articles about his passion from 1936 to 1938.
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[+] More Moses Signed My Bible
Published since 14 Dec 2009“An autographed copy of a first edition kicks it up to something special - and hard to reproduce on a Kindle or iPhone”, writes Tom Post in Forbes Magazine. “Autographed first editions are a cool way to collect rare books.” However: “Forgers think so, too.” Some snippets ...